The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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01/11/23

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88m

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The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Guy Burckhardt wakes to the bright familiarity of Tingly, Ohio, with its tidy lawns, friendly neighbors, and the promise of another ordinary day. Yet small glitches keep snagging his attention: a billboard that seems to speak directly to him, conversations that loop back on themselves, and a creeping sense that the town's cheerful routines are too perfectly timed. When Guy begins comparing notes with his wife, Dianne, and watching the behavior of those around him, the comfort of suburbia starts to feel like a set built for an audience he cannot see. Determined to understand why his memories do not quite match what the town insists is true, Guy follows a trail of subtle inconsistencies toward a discovery that threatens everything he believes about his life, his choices, and even what it means to be real. Taut, unsettling, and sharply satirical, The Tunnel Under the World turns a mystery of one man's unease into a chilling meditation on consumer culture, manipulation, and the fragile boundaries between authentic experience and manufactured desire.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:15:14) Chapter 2

(00:31:34) Chapter 3

(00:46:39) Chapter 4

(01:07:30) Chapter 5

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The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 11, 2023

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109m

The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl audiobook.

Genre: scifi

After the Third World War, New York City is a hollowed-out ruin of scavengers, broken factions, and improvised rules. Into this wreckage come three unlikely partners: Sam Dunlap and Vern Engdahl, sailors trying to stay alive one day at a time, and Arthur - a compact machine intelligence with a brain built for command, logistics, and survival. Arthur is valuable in a way food and bullets cannot match: he can organize people, run systems, and make plans that might actually work. That makes him a prize. When a determined young woman appears with an offer to buy Arthur outright, Sam and Vern realize just how many desperate survivors want Arthur for their own purposes, and how few of them will respect his freedom - or their lives. Forced into flight through a city that has forgotten law, the trio must decide what they owe one another, what kind of community is worth rebuilding, and whether a mind inside a machine can choose its own destiny. Fast, sharp, and wry, Frederik Pohl blends post-apocalyptic tension with big questions about personhood, loyalty, and power.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:15:13) Chapter 02

(00:36:49) Chapter 03

(00:46:55) Chapter 04

(01:03:49) Chapter 05

(01:24:43) Chapter 06

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Nice Girl With 5 Husbands by Fritz Leiber ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 11, 2023

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122m

Nice Girl With 5 Husbands by Fritz Leiber audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Tom Dorset arrives at a secluded artists' retreat in the desert hoping the quiet will cure his creative drought. Instead, he meets Lois Wolver, a bright, disarming young woman who casually introduces a complication that stops Tom cold: she has five husbands. Before Tom can decide whether he has stumbled onto a joke, a cult, or a scandal, Lois invites him into the orbit of the Wolvers' tight-knit household - a deliberate experiment in love, loyalty, and shared living that treats jealousy as a problem to be solved rather than a fate to be endured. Drawn by attraction, curiosity, and a nagging sense that his own assumptions about romance are too small, Tom finds himself negotiating rules he does not understand, personalities that do not fit any familiar mold, and a community that can feel both tender and faintly menacing. As the desert heat presses in and Tom's outsider status becomes harder to ignore, he must decide what he truly wants from intimacy, from art, and from the stories he tells himself about what a 'normal' life should be.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:20) Chapter 02

(01:08:06) Chapter 03

(01:39:10) Chapter 04

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